How to Use Failure to Achieve Your Goals
How to Use Failure to Achieve Your Goals Recently (and totally surprisingly for me), I was struggling with resistance towards setting goals and clarifying my desires. But before my goal-setting impotence set in, I had a big goal I’d been working towards for years that I just haven’t accomplished. Goal failure. Realizing just how long […]
Why It’s Great Being an Owner in Your Design Career
Why It’s Great Being an Owner in Your Design Company We don’t talk about money very often openly in our society, and we don’t talk about what it’s like to be an owner in a company. And one of the things we really don’t talk about? How much more money you can make […]
The Ultimate Guide to Figuring Out What to do When Your Architecture or Design Career is Unfulfilling
How to Get More Creative Work, Social Impact Design, and Purpose in Your Architecture or Design Career We spend the majority of our waking hours on work, and so we want to feel like our work makes a difference. If your architecture or design job doesn’t provide you with a sense of purpose or accomplishment, […]
How to Achieve Your Goals — Without Losing Your Creative Soul
How to Achieve Your Goals—Without Losing Your Creative Soul Ever feel like you’re never getting enough done? Or can get things done — but at the expense of your creativity? I was that kid in the soccer league who failed at defending the goal because I was off in the field distracted by picking flowers. […]
How to Host a Virtual Dance Party
And creating the creativity you want to experience. This year, during the height of COVID I was living in the epicenter – in New Yok City. All around the city at 7pm people would open their windows and break into applause to the essential workers who were coming off of there shifts. I’d been thinking […]
4 Myths About Career Growth That Are Keeping You Stuck in a Job Rut
4 Myths About Career Growth That Are Keeping You Stuck in a Job Rut I hear a lot of things from women who are feeling stuck in a career rut, and I wanted to take a moment to clear up a few of the biggest myths and misconceptions that I see about creative career growth: […]
Hold on to Your North Star
Many of my coaching clients who have identified their North Star have been saying things like, “I think I still have PTSD from the last recession…” or, “I’ve been through a recession before but…” And this moment feels the same but is also different. We still don’t know what’s going to happen. There are unknown […]
What is a Visual Case Study and What Can It Do for Your Career or Business?
The truth is out there. And no, this isn’t some kind of Mulder and Scully kind of thing. via GIPHY The truth of how you can move from where you are in your career or business to where you want to go in your career is out there. Want to become a nationally-known subject expert […]
How to Win in Your Next Performance Reviews or Negotiation
My recent interview with Bolanle Williams-Olley In my recent interview with Bolanle Williams-Olley, Chief Financial Officer of architecture firm Mancini Duffy, we discussed how to make sure we tell the story of our impact—and our financial impact—in order to build better arguments for our worth, and for the opportunities we want. If you’re about to […]
Looking for Your Mid-Career Mentors?
Looking for Your Mid-Career Mentors? What got you here won’t get you there. I speak to many women who are feeling adrift in their career. They’re not sure if they’re in the right place, they are feeling lost in their career. And many of them have something in common. “I don’t have a mentor,” they […]
